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Kerry Washington Secretly Gave Birth to a Baby Girl Two Weeks Ago, According to New Report

Kerry Washington—beloved television fixer and style icon—is said to have given birth nearly two weeks ago, according to a new report, in the kind of top-secret, paparazzi-photo-free maneuver that her own Scandal character might be able to effortlessly pull off in D.C.

But Washington pulled it off, even more impressively, in Los Angeles. And it was not some kind of at-home, new-age, bathtub-birthing situation. Washington and her husband, former N.F.L. cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, reportedly welcomed a baby girl named Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha into their lives at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, on April 21. And nary a reporter or photographer has caught on until now. (This is not Washington and Asomaugha’s first top-secret joint milestone—the duo married privately last June.)

A source tellsPeople that, naturally, “Kerry is at home busy with the baby.”

Congratulations both to Washington and the Scandal costume designer who can now return Olivia Pope to the impeccably tailored waistlines with which she was separated during this pregnancy. We are perilously tipping our red-wine glasses over our cream designer suits to you.